Emerald Malice - A Mafia Romance

-, B-, C-, or D-lists, for that matter. But I do see a veritable army

table businessmen, but the vast majority look more like what I'd generously call "hardcore criminals." We're talking thick golden chains, t

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Kuznetsovs keep, it was a

e. These are not people

dering when Nervous Na

I'm this close to cold-cocking her right across

owhere. Come on-don't you want to have adventures to look back on in your ol

get to old age. Which, judging by the men

hen she was trying to get me to go skinny dipping in her boss's pool that summer she was house-sittin

t her when I h

good as a slap across the

too cold. Then again, what is the right way to talk about your paren

spilling over. There's no way I'm gonn

that. And I just... I don't want to see you stuck in th

hords of the wedding march coming from the ballro

back, and judge from afar. Okay? Nothing risky. Besides," she adds, "if we leave now, we're only gonna dra

pro

art with her index finger. "C

don't keep that promise

We join the last exodus of people streaming through the doors and fi

heir places. The conver

isle, looking impossibly huge and impossibly gorgeous. A mountain in charcoal with e

a interrupts my guilty thoughts. "Forg

I have absolutely no claim to that man. So

elf firmly. I don't

h my God, look at her dress. My freaking grandma would've encou

er a glar

n the aisle by her short, balding father. People rise to their feet

e hell

h instinctively for the locket

her to walk me down the ais

ere's that

ore and mor

. She's pale as snow, with strawberry b

erritory," Katya jeers. "She lo

-in-law. Then the ceremony starts. Katya chews at her nails as the o

er, do you think

erely h

e altar, the officiant plows into the home stretch. "Do you, Vik

ing herself for something. It lea

at

ens his m

OBJ

, my jaw hanging to

ne. The crowd twis

hat, Katya has

on her-includ

le his bride lists to the side as though

e deterred by the eyes on her, it's like the audience is giving her life. "He pro

eyebrow flickers up as he regards Katya with pure, acidic disdain. Then he looks off to the left and gives a nod to someon

a can do a lot of damage in ten seconds. As

ies out. "She's pregnant with his baby

pointing in my direction,

see this pregnant mistress she's appar

d me except an onyx vase

s when it

to be the pre

the

let myself get roped i

ndrey Kuznetsov steps off the raised platfo

looks

me and he growls three terrifying words in